[PATCH v2] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) refactor deprecated strncpy

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Sat Sep 30 04:55:45 AEST 2023


On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:22:51 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> 
> A suitable replacement is `memcpy` as we've already precisely calculated
> the number of bytes to copy while `buf` has been explicitly
> zero-initialized:
> | 	char buf[8] = { 0 };
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks! (I've updated the Subject here
and with the older "refactor" subjects...)

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook



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